- Automatic updates

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:36:02 -0500

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I use Firefox and Thunderbird for my browser and email.
They have a nice automatic mechanism for releasing updates
and restarting the system right back at the point where you
left off.

It occurs to me that this would be a nice feature for Blackbox
when coupled to Component Pascal Collections (CPC).
I could see a window occur , say when you start BB, that says
"New modules are available for xxx would you like to load them now?"
You would have a check list of subsystems previously specified of those
subsystems in which you are interested (the full list would be updated
behind the scenes when you started BB). Interdependency of modules
would have to be maintained so that a working set would always be
on your system.

The benefits of automatic updates would be to keep the BB community
in sync. It would also allow Oberon Microsystems a mechnism for maintaining
the BB core.

Comments?

-Doug Danforth

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